Best Player You've Seen, Best Player You've Met.

[powderfinger]

The best I've seen in every sport:

Baseball: Best- Sandy Koufax Spent time with- Warren Spahn
Football: Best - Dick Butkus. Spent time with - Dick Butkus
Basketball: Best- Michael Jordan Spent time with - Lloyd Batts (went to the same high school, had one shop class together. Kind of "I knew him when...")
Hockey: Glenn Hall Spent time with - Eddie Giacomin
Soccer: George Best. Spent time with: Gordon Hill

When I was a kid, my dad or my uncle would take me to Wrigley Field and I saw the really great players of the late 50s and early 60s. Sitting behind home plate, watching Sandy Koufax throw breaking balls was mesmerizing. I saw Clemente, Mays, Banks, Musial, Drysdale and so many more. Butkus was the only reason to go to Bears games for a decade, Glenn Hall was an ironman who played in over 500 consecutive games, and Michael Jordan was, well, Michael Jordan. I saw many of the world's great soccer players in their twilight years, Pele, Beckenbauer, Chinaglia, Marinho, Cruyff, etc., but Best was something special. Too bad he wasted it.

[ChiefBeef]

Best Baseball Seen: Aaron, Mantle, Killebrew

Best Met: Jim Palmer

Best Basketball Seen: Julius Erving